At this point in my life it mostly resembles the 10 hour cinematic masterpiece Paint Drying

As I own Komplete 14 Ultimate that’s very good to hear! Thanks!

I did try LinVST, but at the time I couldn’t get the converted VSTs to run in anything I tried. Maybe I was being stupid at the time, or maybe it wasn’t as stable at the time compared to now, but thanks for reminding me, as now I will try to use it again the next time I try to make the switch, together with yabridge.

I’ll try that as soon as I can.

I don’t know the reason why I didn’t use it the last time I tried ( about 2 years ago?), maybe I didn’t find anyone mentioning yabridge at the time (I never asked, I just searched), maybe another reason.

But now I remember I ended up using Carla with an extension that let it use Windows plugins, which I would advise against.

If I get the VSTs that mean the most to me running well enough on Linux, then there’s nothing keeping me on Windows

I have, over the years, spent quite some money on (windows) VSTs. I’ve tried in the past to get them running on Linux, but with no success : even when the installer worked fine in wine, the tools used to get the VSTs to run using bitwig either introduced too much lag, or the sound was stuttering. Have you had some more success and if so, can you give me some pointers?